# [newbie] listening note programming question

Tom Ritchford (tom@mvision.com)
Thu, 9 May 1996 13:12:24 PDT

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    From: "D. Jason Nolan" <jnolan@oise.on.ca>
    >overboard.  I took $note and added a verb :tell with the string
    >this:set_text({@this.text, dobjstr});
    >
    >This added anything said onto the note.
    >
    >But now I want to add the names of the speaker.  So I tried:
    >
    >this:set_text({this.text, tostr(player.name, " -> ", argstr)});

    Try adding the @ in again...

    this:set_text({@this.text, tostr(player.name, " -> ", argstr)});

    >Which works, but ONLY gives me the last thing that someone said prefaced
    >by their name, and a cryptic {list}

    That's because you didn't "unravel" the first list.  I've made this
    mistake more than once...

        /t

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